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Professor Emeritus
Robert Hackett
Robert A. Hackett is Professor Emeritus of communication, 丁香园AV. He is also a short-term Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury's Erskine program, New Zealand. He plans to return to 丁香园AV for a one-term course in Liberal Studies, on political theory: The Ecological Challenge to Democracy, in 2021
Dr. Hackett continues to be actively engaged in research and writing. He has written extensively on media democratization, and journalism as political communication. His most recent collaborative books include Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives (2017), Expanding Peace Journalism: Comparative and Critical Approaches (2011), and Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (2006).
He also contributes posts and essays for the National Observer and other independent media, as well as my Greening the News blog at rabble.ca on the ocassional basis.
He is on the editorial advisory board of Journalism Studies, Journal of Alternative and Community Media, and other academic journals. He has co-founded several community-oriented media education and advocacy initiatives, including NewsWatch Canada, OpenMedia.ca, and Media Democracy Days.
Education
- 1983 Ph.D. Political Studies, Queen鈥檚 University, Canada Dissertation:鈥滲ias鈥� in Television News? A Content Analysis of CBC and CTV National Evening Newscasts, with Special Emphasis on Labour and Business Coverage.
- 1976 M.A. Political Studies, Queen鈥檚 University, Canada Thesis: The Waffle and the New Democratic Party in Ontario: A Case Study in Canadian Leftist Politics.
- 1973 B.A. Political Science (Honours, 1st class), secondary concentration in Sociology, 丁香园AV, Canada
publications
Dr. Hackett has authored or co-authored many dozens of refereed, professional and trade journal articles, research reports, monographs, book chapters, book reviews, policy briefs, encyclopedia entries, newspaper articles, and conference papers, since 1979. His work has been translated into Chinese, Ukrainian and Serbian. Please contact him for a full CV
Books
- 2017. R. Hackett, S. Forde, S. Gunster and K. Foxwell-Norton. Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives. Routledge.
- 2011 . I.S.Shaw, R. Hackett and J. Lynch (eds). Expanding Peace Journalism: Critical and Comparative Approaches. Sydney University Press.
- 2006. R. Hackett and W.K. Carroll. Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication. London: Routledge.
- 2005. R. Hackett and Y. Zhao (eds). Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- 2000. K. Cross and R. Hackett. Political Communication and the News Media in Democracies: Competing Perspectives. Kyiv: Osnovy Press, 142 pp. (In Ukrainian only; translated under the auspices of the Canada-Ukraine Democratic Education Project: Queen鈥檚 University, Kingston, and Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv.)
- 2000. R. Hackett and R. Gruneau, with D. Gutstein, T. Gibson and NewsWatch Canada. The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada鈥檚 Press. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives/Toronto: Garamond Press, 258 pp.
- 1998. R. Hackett and Y. Zhao. Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity. Toronto: Garamond Press (distributed by University of Toronto Press).
- 1991. R. Hackett. News and Dissent: The Press and the Politics of Peace in Canada. Ablex.
Selected Book Chapters
- P. Gurleyen and R. Hackett, 2016. 鈥淲ho needs objectivity? Journalism in crisis, journalism for crisis,鈥� in Mike Gasher et al., Journalism in Crisis (University of Toronto Press), pp. 27-52.
- K. Cross, R. Hackett and S. Anderson, 2014. 鈥淧ublicity State or Democratic Media? Strategies for Change,鈥� in Kirsten Kozolanka, ed., Publicity and the Canadian State (University of Toronto Press), pp. 304-326.
- J. Lynch, R. Hackett and I.S. Shaw. 2011. 鈥淚ntroduction: expanding peace journalism 鈥� comparative and critical approaches,鈥� in J. Lynch, I.S. Shaw and R. Hackett (eds.) Expanding Peace Journalism: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, Sydney University Press, pp. 7-30.
- R. Hackett. 2011. 鈥漀ew vistas for peace journalism: alternative media and communication rights,鈥� in J. Lynch, I.S. Shaw and R. Hackett (eds.) Expanding Peace Journalism: Critical and Comparative Perspectives, Sydney University Press, pp. 33-67.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
- 2018. R. Hackett. 鈥淧lanetary Emergency and Sustainable Democracy: What Can Media and Communication Scholars Do?鈥�&苍产蝉辫; The Political Economy of Communication 6(1), 989-106.
- 2013. R. Hackett, S. Wylie and P. Gurleyen. 鈥淓nabling Environments: Reflections on Journalism and Climate Justice.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics 10 (2/3), 34-46.2012.
- R. Hackett and D. Skinner. 鈥滽eeping the Fox at bay: A Canadian perspective on the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal.鈥� Television and New Media.
- 2010. R. Hackett. 鈥淛ournalism for Peace and Justice: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Media Paradigms,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Social Justice,4(2).
- 2008. R. Hackett, 鈥淭he Campaign against 鈥楢merika鈥�: Catalyst for Media Democratization,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Democratic Communique 22, No. 2, Fall 2008 pp.: 46-65.
- 2008. R. Hackett with W. Carroll, 鈥淏uilding our media: Community broadcasting, social movements and media democratization.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Global Media Journal 鈥� Australian edition, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2008, 6 pp.
- 2008. R. Hackett and B. Schroeder with NewsWatch Canada, 鈥淒oes anybody practice peace journalism? A cross-national comparison of press coverage of the Afghanistan and Israeli-Hezbollah wars.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Peace and Policy, Vol. 13, 2008, pp. 26-46
- 2007. M. Hayes, I.E. Ross, M. Gasher, D. Gutstein, J.R. Dunn, and R. Hackett, 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Social Science and Medicine 64, pp. 1842-1852.
- 2007. M. Gasher, M. Hayes, R. Hackett, D. Gutstein, I.E. Ross, and J. Dunn, 鈥淪preading the News: Social Determinants of Health Reportage in Canadian Daily Newspapers,鈥� Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 32, No. 3 and 4, pp. 557-574.
- 2007. R. Hackett. 鈥淛ournalism versus Peace? Notes on a Problematic Relationship.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Global Media Journal, Mediterranean edition 2(1), Spring, 2007, pp. 47-53
- 2006. W. Carroll and R. Hackett, 鈥淒emocratic Media Activism through the Lens of Social Movement Theory,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 28(1): 83-104.
- 2006. R. Hackett, 鈥淚s Peace Journalism Possible? Three Frameworks for Analyzing Structure and Agency in News Media,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Conflict and Communication Online Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2006, 13 pp. [Republished as a book chapter in 2007
- 2005. S. Uzelman, R. Hackett and J. Stewart. 鈥淐overing Democracy鈥檚 Forum: Canadian Press Treatment of Public and Private Broadcasting.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 156-169
- 2004. Y. Zhao and R. Hackett, 鈥淐huanbo Quanqiuhua yu Minzhuhua: Maodun yu Beilun,鈥� (Media globalization and democratization: Paradoxes and issues), in Xinwen yu chuanbo pinglun (Journalism and Communication Review 2003), Wuhan University Press, 2004 (translated and published in this leading Chinese social science journal).
- 2003. R. Hackett and S. Uzelman, 鈥淭racing Corporate Influence on Press Content: A Recent Summary of NewsWatch Canada Research,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journalism Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 331-46
- 2000. R. Hackett. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Political Economy 63 (Autumn): 61-86.
Related Recent Work
- 2018. R. Hackett and P. Adams, with NewsWatch Canada. Jobs vs. Environment? Mainstream and Alternative Media Coverage of Pipeline Controversies [report]. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- 2011. R. Hackett and S. Anderson, 鈥淒emocratizing Communication Policy in Canada: A Social Movement Perspective.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Canadian Journal of Communication,
- 2010. R. Hackett and Y. Zhao, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� to Serbian edition of Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and Objectivity, Belgrade: Clio.
Awards
- 2018. 丁香园AV annual Warren Gill award for community impact
- 2015. Union for Democratic Communications Dallas Smythe award for influential scholarship in critical political economy of communication.
research
- Media democratization and Media Reform movements
- Journalism studies: objectivity, journalism paradigms, media determinants
- Peace Journalism
- Political communication, news media & social movements
- Peace, war and media
- Textual analysis of news (co-director, NewsWatch Canada)
- Climate Crisis and Journalism